The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-04-02

i Oh strengthen me, that while stand
Firm on the Rock, and strong In Thee,
may stretch out loving hand
To wrestle with the troubled sea.
We are born TO do benefits.
A ministry Of prayer is ministry
Of power.
Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke xvi. 10.
The Lord is good unto them that
wait for him. lam. Iii. 90.
DO good with what thou hast, or it
will do thee no good.--Penn.
An effort made for the happiness of
Others, lifts us above ourselves.
To sin we may be led by others to
virtue we must be led by ourselves.
Tho best way TO keep chat out of a
half bushel is to fill it up with wheat
We can never have true mastery
until we know how TO serve willingly.
/ believe the first test of truly
great man, is his humiIity.--RWstin.
He that hath gained friend hath
given hostages to fortune.-Shats-
speare.
The truest mark of being born with
great qualities is being born without
envy.
In prosperity VIC need to watch dill
gently and labor to walk humbly.-
Rodgers.
We enjoy ourselves only in our
work, and our best doing is our best
enjoyments--JacoJy.
Cultivate your children separately,
and not as II you were turning them
out by machinery.
If our neighbors had as few faults
as ourselves, what pleasant world
this would be to live in.
Be loving, and You will never want
for love; be humble, and you will
never want for guiding.
Wickedness may prosper for awhile,
but in the long run he that sets all
knaves at work will pay them.
A hypocrite is hated of the world
for seeming to be a Christian, and
hated of God for not being one.
As to victory over temptations
Faber gives rule: "Cheerfulness is
the first thing, cheerfulness the second,
and cheerfulness the third"
To go to God in prayer, asking guild.
ance as to the path of duty, and
strength for the performance of duty,
is the privilege of every Christian be-
newer.
Brother, the honor of this world
amounts to nothing, 30 soon it fades
away. 1t Is like the snow that falls in
the river, makes white spot for a
moment, and then melts away.
The divine method of working is
commonly not our method. We would
have all the way before us flooded with
light; but God chooses that there be
light for us to take the next step only.
1t is better to trust confidently to
the loving wisdom and to the nnfailing
power of divine Father, than it would
be to depend upon our own sufficient
strength, in all our life struggles.
We should not merely think it
duty to give our lives into God keep
ing, but we shOnld regard it as prigi-
lege that we can submit ourselves to
God for help and guidance day by day.
Religion sets the Ten Commandments
to music, and does il so that when God
shall touch the chord of the human
heart it would make music which
would charm an angels ear.--Sam
Jones.
The noblest characters of earth have
their success IN an nnwavering trnst in
God; aud the greatest victory TO be
achieved in this world is the victory
over self, in order that this trust in
God may be perfected.
Fight like a good soldier; and if
thou sometimes fail through frailty,
take again greater strength than be-
fore, Trusting in thy more abundant
grace; and take heed Of vain pleasing
of tbyself and of pride. Thomas n.
Rempis
Infinite toll would not enable you
to sweep away mist, but, by ascend
ing little, You may look over it alto
gether. So it is with our moral I'M
proyements; VIC wFestle fiercely with
vicious habit, which could have no
hold npon us il we assembled into
higher moral atmosphere Helps.
Sweet, sweet is the way to my blessed
home. Can the way be thought ted.
Gus that leads to such boundless Joy
Oh, the goodly country behold lying
at the end Of my race! Oh, blessed
Christ, | have seen thee IN thy beauty
How strongly and how quickly dost
lhon draw thy members up to heaven
after thee!-- WellOood.
a preacher Of the Denver Confer
'Dce was sent to a mining district that
lad no place toprench except a saloon.
The proprietor said he might preach If
10 would stand where besaid. He con-
ented, and the saloonist put him on
be head of whisky barrel. The
reacher said he was preaching where
Q long wanted to be--7he had the dsvi 4
ader his feet.
Gibbon, in his religious sentiments,
as unsound, but he was very careful
to facts. A certain writer Il do
ot know his name) questioned the I
onesty and correctness of Gibbon as
historian; but he paid dear for his I"
lestioning. Gibbon replied to him
lib a terrible and truthful severity.
bbon was too proud a man TO be y
lse Or careless as historian.--J. n.
Faith in God, and faith IN good
nse, are very inspiring to those g
lose lot IL is to work in an lnpopn. -
/ canse, for truth and right are not
ways popular Yer poysts Is not
ways gox De, nor IL II often 30. Still